It’s nothing dystopian like you think. Basically just a variation on camera sensors:

[…] bio-inspired cameras that capture the world more like the human eye does. These are called dynamic vision sensors, and they work like motion detectors for each pixel. They only “wake up” and send information when something changes in the scene, rather than constantly streaming data like a regular camera.

These bio-inspired cameras are also highly energy efficient, using less than 1% of the power of normal cameras.

Heheh

I love doing little edits like this:

Took a quick look at the free tier,

• 3 users
• 100 devices
• Basically all tailscale features

That seems pretty reasonable to me. Main account and two accounts to share. With just friends and family, I doubt most people will reach the 100 device limit.

TL;DR from Wikipedia: In photon upconversion, two or more incident photons of relatively low energy are absorbed and converted into one emitted photon with higher energy.

Basically photons are combined into a photon that is nearer in wavelength to visible light.

Turns out, it’s illegal to remove them in the US:

I’ll be leaving the cowbird egg in the nest, but will keep a close eye on the other eggs.

I’ve heard that the cowbird will retaliate if it finds its egg missing. Won’t that happen?

Well dang…

Hopefully the Robin babies do alright.

Is that for real? How would there be two species of eggs together? Is it common?

Yup. Best solution I’ve heard of for stuff like this out climbing in the drier is to scare the ever living daylight out of them (without doing any actual harm).

In this scenario, I would “trap” their arm with something like a notebook, make a loud racket in the fridge, and maybe even shake the door a bunch.

For something like a clothes drier, I would slap the machine a lot and shake it all about.

Basically, scare them enough that they lose all desire to do it again. Sucks to have to do it, but it’s not like you can sit them down and have a chat about the dangers of machines…

I’ll give it a look. I’m still in the early stages of the project, so it’ll be a bit before I get to the point where I work on the database side of things.

After reading some of the other comments, I’m definitely going to separate the systems. I’ll use something like json or yaml as the output for the raw scraped data, and some sort of database for the final program.

That’s an interesting read. I’ll definitely give json a try too.

Glad I could brighten up your day!

That’s good to know.

WhAt’S a CoMpUtEr?

Gonna be honest, I’ll need to research a bit more what validating against a schema is, but I get the general idea, and I like it.

For initial testing and prototypes, I probably won’t worry about validation, but once I get to the point of refining the system, validation like that would be a good idea.

One concern I’m seeing from other comments is that I may have more data than SQLite is ideal for. I have thousands of stories (My estimate is between 10 and 40 thousand), and many of the stories can be several pages long.

Gotcha. I think I’m aiming for something that runs off a single program. I want to be able to start it up whenever or even transfer it to a drive and use it on something like my laptop. Your idea sounds like it may work, but I’ll have to give it a deeper look.

I’m not entirely sure yet, but probably yes to both. The story text will likely stay unchanged, but I’ll likely experiment with various ways to analyze the stories.

The main idea I want to try is assigning stories “likely tags” based on the frequency of keywords. So castle and sword could indicate fantasy while robot and ship could indicate sci-fi. There are a lot of stories missing tags, so something like this would be helpful.

What’s your reasoning for that?

At this point, I think I’ll only use yaml as the scraper output and then create a database tool to convert that into whatever data format I end up using.